The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-11
PROTECTION ron ALL.



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~ lt New Exists
'sThe city manufacturer have protectioo
bounty against European competition thas
averages nearly my per cent which the farmsR
has TO pay on nearly every thing he buys, While
he has TO sell his produce at European market
values, less the cost Of transportation from tho
depot to the foreign port which eats up half
the cost and leaves him NO profit II he could
buy his goods for tvo-thirds Of what he BOW
has to pay for them. he could charge my per
cent more for his crops, he could get along
comfortably But buying his goods and wares
ct high-tarin rates and having to pay for them
with crops that only fetch free-t-ade prices.
less expense Of transportation, leaves him
nothing but aches and empty pockets -fse
Trade Ne,rspapr.
1t would be difficult to embody
greater number of perversioDs OF fact
and of fallacies in so few lines IS tho
above quotation from . free-trade
newspaper contains.
The farmer does not pay bounty
on nearly every thing that he buys.
The prices for every thing that the
farmer buys were never before so low
as they are at the present time. II
any farmer has list of prices under
the low revenue tariff that prevailed in
1858, let him compare it with a list Of
prices now. Sugar. salt, cotton and
wooden cloth. household and farming
utensils, nails, boots and shoes, articles
of female wear. ready-made clothing
for men-evcry thing that the farmer
buys for his own use. are less in price
by one-half in most cases. and by more
than one-half in many cases. than
they were in low-tariff times before the
war. Brown sugar then cost 10 cents
and white sugar 10 cents pound; now
the best white sugar can be bought for
Z cents a pound. Salt then cost - q
barrel; it now costs s. cents barrel
Cotton cloth that then cost from 10 to
Is cents yard can now be bought for
from 5 to cents yard. Wooden cloth
is proportionately cheaper. Statistics
are better than arguments. and the fg-
ures of the market reports do not lie.
For a IS bill farmer, or anybody else.
can now buy as much of any of the
necessaries of life above enumerated
rs could have been bough. for a $40
bill under any low-tariff system that
ever prevailed. High tariff rates"
give the farmer and all others lower
priced goods than 'low-tarif rates"
ever furnished.
On the other hand. the protection
given by the tariff laws to the farmer
is as great in proportion as that given
to any other class of producers Wheat
is protected by tariff Of 20 cents
bushel Corn. rye. oats and barley
are protected by tariff of 10 cents q
bushel. Butter and cheese are pro-
tected by tariff of cents pound
Animals to be killed for food are pro-
tected by tariff of 20 per cent. and
beef and pork are protected by tariff
of 2 cents pound. The present tariff
laws. in other ways. protect every
product of the field. the dairy and the
forest If protective tariff makes the
farmer ''pay bounty on every thing
that he buys" it makes every body
else pay him a bounty on every thing
that he sells.
The prices of farm products are tenn
porarily depressed. But the farming
population Of the country were never
so well of as at the present time.
Farming lands never before bore sc
high a price as they do now. The
farmer never before had so many COM
forts in his home-his family were
never so well dressed. so well fed, SC
well housed. so well schooled and SC
well provided for in every way as they
are now. Shiftless. unthrifty and un-
business-like husbandry never pros
pered. nor does it now prosper. Nc
business or industry prospers If it IL
conducted in q shiftless and thriftless
manner. But farmers who manage
their farms methodically. on correct
system. and generally like good bust.
ness men, are successful. prosperous
and increasing in their substance n
rapidly as men in other department.
Of business or industrial enterprise
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